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2012 HVS Hotel Cost Estimating Guide Sep 7, 2012: Over the course of the past few years, performance in the lodging industry has risen steadily, if not sharply, with overall nationwide RevPAR increases generally ranging from 5% to 7% and going as high as 8.2% in 2011. However, this spike in performance has not necessarily translated into a flood of renovation or new build projects, at least not yet

Hospitality Tip of the Week - Four Points to Long Term Success Jul 15, 2012: Swim with the Sharks: Without Being Eaten Alive; Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate and Outnegotiate Your Competition
by Harvey Mackay (called "Mr. Make-Things-Happen" by Fortune Magazine)

Uniform System Of Accounts For Lodging - 10th Edition - Major Changes Jun 23, 2012: The Financial Management Committee of the American Hotel and Lodging Association (AH&LA), in conjunction with the Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP), published the tenth edition of the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry (USALI) in the fall of 2006. The first edition of the USALI was published in 1926 by the Hotel Association of New York City.

Recommended Reading: Identity: Your Passport to Success May 14, 2012: Identity: Your Passport to Success

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by Arthur Hailey

Detailed, insighful and still on target - 35 years later!, January 24, 2011

Top 25 B&Bs and Inns in the United States Apr 16, 2012: Top 25 B&Bs and Inns in the United States

Shaping the future of the hospitality industry - 2012 Young Hoteliers Summit Apr 12, 2012: Young Hoteliers Summit (YHS) 2012 | Shaping the future of the hospitality industry

For three days, hit-CONSULT Darja Gogunova and Catherine Balcerzak were surrounded by hotel students, professors, and key industry members who were all focused and driven by these key traits. The annual Young Hoteliers Summit (YHS) took place from March 19-21, 2012 in Lausanne Switzerland.

Bio as Bible: Managers Imitate Steve Jobs Apr 11, 2012: Biography of Apple Co-Founder Becomes Management Guide; Perfection, Turtlenecks
Prasad Thammineni, the chief executive of a file-sharing start-up called OfficeDrop in Cambridge, Mass., was no fan of Steve Jobs after Apple Inc. AAPL +1.50% took a long time adding one of the company's apps to its iTunes Store.

The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs Apr 10, 2012: His saga is the entrepreneurial creation myth writ large: Steve Jobs cofounded Apple in his parents’ garage in 1976, was ousted in 1985, returned to rescue it from near bankruptcy in 1997, and by the time he died, in October 2011, had built it into the world’s most valuable company. Along the way he helped to transform seven industries: personal computing, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, retail stores, and digital publishing. He thus belongs in the pantheon of America’s great innovators, along with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Walt Disney. None of these men was a saint, but long after their personalities are forgotten, history will remember how they applied imagination to technology and business.